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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Figure 20. Stop 8. Flour Mill. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />On the west bank of the Poudre you can see one <br />of Ft. Collins' oldest industries. Ranch-Way <br />Feed stands where the city's first flour mill <br />was built in 1868. The mill was built by Henry <br />Clay Peterson and "Auntie" Stone, the first white <br />woman resident in Ft. Collins. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Elizabeth "Auntie" Stone was a remarkable pioneer. <br />She conducted a hotel; cooked for the army <br />officers; helped organize the Women's Christian <br />Temperance Union; built a brick kiln; and helped <br />erect a flour mill. She accomplished all these <br />things after she came to Ft. Collins at the age <br />of 63. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The mill has changed hands many times and has <br />burned down, but it was always rebuilt and <br />remained a flour mill until 1952 when Ranch-Way <br />began to manufacture feeds. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Flour from the mill has been sold under several <br />names: Defiance, Jack Frost, Snow Drift, Queen <br />of the West, Trader, Snow Flake, and Pride of <br />Colorado. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" <br />